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Panel Urges Affordable Health Plans

Requirements for health-insurance plans offered through new government-run exchanges should be tailored to what small businesses can afford, a key report to the Obama administration recommended.

The report—from the Institute of Medicine, an independent board that advises the government on health policy—will play a pivotal role in determining how the Department of Health and Human Services decides what benefits must be covered under...

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